[NEWS] Five LGBTQ links: crime, Church and Wellesley, politics, Cape Breton, flannel

[rfmcdonald]

• The vigil that Toronto's Metropolitan Community Church is holding tonight for the victims of the Church and Wellesley serial killer sounds necessary, meaningful. CBC reports.


• Vjosa Isai reported yesterday about a string of unsolved murders committed against gay men in the late 1970s in Toronto. I'm impressed; this is the first time I've come across mention of these victims since I read their names in digitized copies of the Body Politic. The article is at the Toronto Star.


• The confidence of John Ibbitson that Church and Wellesley's LGBTQ identity will remain fixed is bracing. The Globe and Mail has it.


• The refusal of Cape Breton Regional Municipality Mayor Cecil Clarke to accept being blackmailed and to instead come it is good news, an item that made international headlines, for instance at Queerty.


• Is flannel tired as a lesbian signifier? I wonder. Thoughts? VICE starts a discussion.